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Working our way towards Sustainable Development
- Making Decent Work and Social Protection a
Global Reality for All Family Members
Encompassing with the theme of the 2012 UN ECOSOC Annual
Ministerial Review, "Promoting productive capacity,
employment and decent work to eradicate poverty in the
context of inclusive, sustainable and equitable economic
growth at all levels for achieving the Millennium
Development Goals", the theme for our World Family
Summit +7 is: Families in Balance: Working our
way towards Sustainable Development - Making Decent Work
and Social Protection a Global Reality for All Family
Members.
The World Family
Summit +7 is committed to introduce a Family
perspective to the achievement of MDG 1, which includes
the implementation of the Decent Work Agenda, the Global
Jobs Pact and Universal Social Protection, to discuss
these initiatives and present ideas and new commitments
which will be registered in the World Family Summit +7
Abu Dhabi Declaration on MDG 1. |
Eye on Earth Summit
12-14
December, 2013
Under the Patronage of
His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan,
President of the UAE, the Eye on Earth
Summit will enable global leaders, innovators and
decision-makers to focus on an issue critical to the
wise decision-making upon which our planet’s future
depends: how to ensure effective access to the world's
expanding pool of environmental and societal data by all
of those who need it.
Facilitated by Abu Dhabi
Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI)
and hosted by Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) in
partnership with the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP), the Eye on Earth
Summit will strengthen existing efforts and inspire a
search for unified, global solutions to the issues that
preclude access to data |
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World Bank kicks off social media climate campaign with
photo/video competition for African youth
Washington, DC / Pretoria, September 15, 2011
-- The
World Bank, in collaboration with more than 30 global partners,
is launching the Connect4Climate initiative --
a competition, and a community that cares about
climate change.
The campaign kicks off today with a photo/video competition for
African youth, aged 13 to 35, which is designed to raise
awareness about climate change.
The best entries will receive prizes (including solar backpacks,professional cameras,tablets,mobiles) at a high profile awards ceremony and be exhibited at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa this December.
ICFER invites young people from Georgia 15 to 35 to send us photos and videos about main categories:
1) Agriculture 2) Energy 3) Forests 4) Gender 5) Health 6) Water
To enter the competition, please go to: www.facebook.com/connect4climate
or
www.connect4climate.org or http://www.facebook.com/icfer
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European ECO Forum Strategy meeting, WGP-14 and the Fourth Meeting of Parties to the Aarhus Convention in Chisinau at the end of June. The Fourth Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MoP) to the Aarhus Convention,
organized governments and non-governmental organizations debating on what is by now the regular business of Aarhus MoPs: mandates of task forces on information, participation and justice being renewed and revised, several Parties being publicly rebuked for being in noncompliance
and asked to take corrective measures, and discussions on the content of the forthcoming work programme and how it will be funded.. The area on which the sharpest disagreement between governments and NGOs emerged was over the extent to which countries outside the UNECE region should be facilitated in acceding to the Convention – perhaps a sign that the Convention has come of age, and of a growing perception that now the time has come to share its benefits worldwide. |
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Meeting documents
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European ECO Forum Press Release from 29 June (in English and Russian)
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European ECO Forum Statement from 29 June (in English)
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European ECO Forum Press Release from 1 July (in English and Russian)
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Jeremy Wates speech at High Level Segment on 1 July (in English)
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brief note on MOP-4 outcomes (in English)
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